On: Gameboy Color Emulator: A brilliant use of HTML5

[Keyframe]

I'm not that familiar with html5/js, but I am curious if it is viable to develop games for it old-school. What I mean by that is having a framebuffer and direct per pixel control. Is this what people do?

[TazeTSchnitzel → Keyframe]

Canvas w/ ImageData lets you do exact pixel control, and with requestAnimationFrame you can time animations best for the system.

[Keyframe → TazeTSchnitzel]

Thanks! But do people use that for web game development at all?

[TazeTSchnitzel → Keyframe]

I've certainly used it myself (for loading levels - bitmaps are great for level designing), dunno about performance with direct pixel access. It may be higher or lower.